The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast - Online Business and Niche Site Ideas for Entrepreneurs

Today, I am excited to bring Steven Foust back on to the Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast! Steven was last on the podcast in episode 10, talking about his new online business Army Promotion Point.

Today, Steven comes back to the podcast to share an amazing update on his progress. In less than twelve months Steven bought two new websites (in the same niche) with 200,000+ website visitors per month, acquired a Facebook page with over 200,000 followers, and launched a few new products to turn a struggling niche website into a $4,000 per month powerhouse that is growing faster every month. 

Today, Steven is sharing how he is building, buying, and scaling online businesses.

This is the start of a series of case studies that I will be publishing to The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast over the coming weeks as I interview successful entrepreneurs in the online business space. These interviews and case studies will  be featured in my newest book "business ideation" (still available for pre-sale).

Resources mentioned in this podcast episode:

• Business Ideas Book
• Build a Business Program
• Steven's Businesses: Army Promotion Point | Cutoff Scores| NCO Support
• Episode #10 - Building an Online Business with Steven Foust

Enjoy!

In this episode I am providing a breakdown of my blog income report, a breakdown of the revenue, expenses, and profit from my niche websites. This income report is for the year 2020, my year end 2020 income report. 2020 was my best year EVER as an entrepreneur, surpassing $91,000 in revenue for the year.

For a full list of my income reports, see my blog income reports archived here: /incomereports

In this episode, and in each upcoming blog income report episode, I will talk through the following:

• Revenue
• Expenses
• Income

In this episode I will breakdown my real revenue and expenses for each one of my websites. I will give you some insight behind the scenes into what I am doing with each blog, what happened during the last quarter, and how I plan to continue scaling.

And if this sparks some ideas for you, or encourages you to go out and start an online business for yourself, I encourage you to start today. If you just need some ideas, go ahead and download my five website ideas (the businesses I would start if I had more time): /nichedownload/

Enjoy!

This is the BIGGEST news I have ever had as an entrepreneur. Today, April 16th 2021, is my last day as a corporate employee. Today, I quit my job to pursue my entrepreneurial ventures full-time.

This episode was recorded on April 2nd, 2021 minutes after giving my two-week notice to my employer.

In today's episode, I share five lessons that I learned on the journey to full time entrepreneurship. Some of these lessons might surprise you (like don't quit your day-job yet). 

Enjoy the episode, one of my favorite that I have recorded in a long time, and don't forget to checkout the book launch at: Theentrepreneurridealong.com/book

Book: Theentrepreneurridealong.com/book

Today I answer the question "I want to start a business, but I don't know what to do". 

I answer this exact question every day. This is the most common question I get from my coaching clients.

Today, I am giving you three steps directly from my book detailing what type of business to start, how to brainstorm and choose your first business idea, and my favorite revenue stream to make money online.

Basically, in this episode, I will tell you how to start your first business step by step. I will give you instructions on how to find that idea, make sure it's valid, and how to get started. 

Tune into this episode of The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast for an action packed 45-minutes. By the time you are done with this episode, you will have an idea for your first business venture.

Check out the book launch at: Theentrepreneurridealong.com/book

Ray Blakney joins us in this episode of The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast to discuss the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. Including building his business Live Lingua (twice), scaling Live Lingua to a seven figure online business, transitioning from a brick-and-mortar business to online, driving traffic with SEO, his tendency to get bored and start new business (like me), and behind the scenes of his newest business Podcast Hawk.

Ray gives us a lot of great insight here behind the scenes of starting a seven-figure online business, including the expenses, revenue, and profit that go into building an online business.

Tune into this episode of The Entrepreneur Ride Along Podcast for some amazing insight from an experienced entrepreneur with years of experience building and scaling online businesses. We all have a lot to learn from Ray and his successful ventures.  

In today's episode, I’m going to give you one online business idea for beginners and I will show you how to make money with the idea. This is a very specific (and niche) idea that we researched in-depth in my build a business program. This is a real business idea that we validated and considered pursuing.

This podcast will be a little different than the other “online business idea” blogs that you typically see. I’ve seen far too many blogs out there that just give general advice like “start a blog” or “write a course”. Sure, that’s great. But back in 2014 when I was getting started, when I was looking for “online business ideas for beginners”, I was looking for ACTUAL ideas that I could take and run with.

So that’s what I’m going to do, because it’s what I wanted when I was in your shoes. One real online business idea, and specifics about how I would make money with the idea. This is an idea that I wrote about in depth in my six business ideas for beginners blog. Here is a snippet from that blog: 

One Online Business Idea for Beginners – Six Sigma Certification (or any certification)

I LOVE the study material or certification niche. I call it the “exam prep niche”. On average, I make well over $5k per month in this niche. In the exam prep niche, we are creating a business by providing study material, guidance, and advice to those pursuing a particular set of exams, designation, certification, or licensing.

Like creating study material and resources for the six-sigma certification.

There are THOUSANDS of niche exams, designations, certifications, and licenses with hundreds of thousands of people taking the exams each month. Off of the top of my head, I think of the CPA, CFA, CNA, Real estate license, underwriter licensing, Fundamentals of Engineering (FE), and CLU. And those are just the big-name designations and licensing that I could think of without doing any research!

I want to show you the research I did into the Six Sigma certification.  I found that over 18,000 people per month are searching for “Six Sigma Certification” and “Certified Six Sigma”. That is PLENTY of people searching for this type of certification, that is plenty of volume to create a profitable business teaching people how to earn their Six Sigma certification. People are also searching for:

• Six Sigma Green belt exam
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow belt
• Six Sigma online
• Six Sigma training
• Six Sigma Black Belt certification cost

Lots of relevant search terms here. It’s clear to see what people are searching for relating to Six Sigma. People want information about each “belt” of the Six Sigma! You can provide that. There are a lot of ways that you can differentiate yourself in this niche, even if there is other competition out there.

For more insight into how to make money in this niche, and what I would do to pursue a business with the Six Sigma certification, listen to the full podcst Episode 14: One Online Business Idea for Beginners (and how I would make money)

In today's episode, I'm sharing one simple (and cheap) SEO tip to increase your website organic traffic. This is the #1 thing you NEED to do to drive organic traffic to your website. This is a tip for SEO beginners and bloggers. If you are just getting started, you need to do this if you hope to drive organic search traffic to your blogs, videos, and podasts.

Before I knew more about SEO, I used this one tip to drive 5,000+ monthly visitors to my website every month. You can take this one SEO tip for beginners, and apply it to your website right now to start driving organic traffic.

Links Mentioned:

• Long Tail Pro Free Trial
• 1K Traffic Challenge

Enjoy!

In this episode I am providing a breakdown of my blog income report, a breakdown of the revenue, expenses, and profit from my niche websites. This income report is for the period of quarter two 2020. May 2020 was my best month EVER as an entrepreneur, surpassing $11,000 in revenue for the month of May.

For a full list of my income reports, see my blog income reports are archive here: /incomereports

In this episode, and in each upcoming blog income report episode, I will talk through the following:

• Revenue
• Expenses
• Income

In this episode I will breakdown my real revenue and expenses for each one of my websites. I will give you some insight behind the scenes into what I am doing with each blog, what happened during the last quarter, and how I plan to continue scaling.

And if this sparks some ideas for you, or encourages you to go out and start an online business for yourself, I encourage you to start today. If you just need some ideas, go ahead and download my five website ideas (the businesses I would start if I had more time): /nichedownload/

Enjoy!

"The One Thing" by Gary Keller is one of my favorite books. Today, I share a book summary of The One Thing and my three biggest takeaways.

My biggest takeaways from this book, as I talk about in today's episode and The One Thing book summary, include:

• Time block 4-hours to focus on your "one thing"
• Set bigger goals and dream bigger
• Willpower is a scarce resource, so don't waste it

I hope you enjoy The One Thing book summary! I highly recommend picking up a copy of this book, you can find The One Thing on Amazon here.

Today, I share a conversation with Steven Foust from Army Promotion Point. In today's conversation, Steven talks about his experience going through my 5-week Build a Business program, and his experience building online businesses from scratch. Today, we get insight into Steven's thought process, actions, and goals that go into building a business. You get to see behind the scenes of Steven's online businesses.

Since our interview, Steven has also started a new website at //armypromotionpointscalculator.com/.

Enjoy!